Legal Opinion
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company v. Murray City
Utah Supreme Court
Decided December 10, 1954No. 8122PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McDONOUGH, Chief Justice.
This is a dispute over the ownership of a strip of land eleven city blocks long and approximately four rods wide within the corporate limits of Murray City. Its arrival in this court has been presaged by a series of quarrels between the railroad and the city, dating at least from 1919, usually occasioned by the city’s installation of public improvements and apparently settled in a manner unsatisfactory to both parties. When Murray City began laying sewer pipes along this strip, known as Second West Street, some preliminary negotiations for a contract indemnifying the…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Great Northern Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Hastings & Dakota Railroad v. WhitneySupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. DunmeyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Dubuque & Pacific Railroad v. LitchfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1860
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3Cited by6 opinions
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- United States v. Union Oil Company of CaliforniaDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1973
- Mason v. StateUtah Supreme Court · 1982
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